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He wouldn't have released it, he will be spinning in his grave right now. They need to ditch Cook and get someone with a pair of balls.
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Well, don't forget about Elon Musk.
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There are also secondary benefits of Prime, they are shifting packages from ground residential, which is traditionally a low-margin business to 2nd-day air. I'd expect the increased leverage over their shippers when renegotiating rates is significant.
I own a X60s, bought it for 170$, I was never so happy owning a laptop, this little thing is amazing. And it is also cute (in a hardware geeky way cute)
Curiosity Takes Its First Drive, Leaving Morse Code on Mars
A 5 for the article, and a 7 for the comments.

BTW, I myself is a Foundation user, mainly because of its better responsive design.
And the flip side of that, you can code much more according to interface and be less concerned with the specific type of bits in a variable.
> “Your playing is the best argument I’ve ever heard for the existence of God, because I don’t really believe a human alone can do this.”

Which is kind of an insult to Yo Yo Ma.
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Can we please try and avoid the casual ageism? I'm 20 and I don't recognise my 19 year old self in that description. Further I know many people of all sorts of ages who switch to the latest 'cool' technology at the first opportunity.
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This post very much appeals to me. I hate the idea of hacking being something you do until you move up far enough on the corporate ladder to pawn it off to someone else. It is a creative, fun, activity that creates immense value and I want to keep on doing it well past my 50's.
This is the kind of insightful comment that brings me back to Hacker News. Thank you.
Hm, I see on the schedule page of PyCon-ZA that the talk was only this morning? (or night, depending on your time zones) So I can imagine that if there'll be a video available, we'll have to wait for it :)
I made a python script to time the different approaches:

https://gist.github.com/3839551

AFAICT, the parent and the interviewer is right because both methods run in roughly the same time because the time of the binary search is orders of magnitude greater than the upper bound finding part. I might have made one or more mistakes though.
Unless it's a rumour someone spread. It would be a smart move. Makes you look better and gain more traction.
Ask HN: How to compete with higher-ranked websites with similar content?
Seriously, I think our website http://appaware.com has really good content and is getting links from highly-ranked websites but can't seem to rank high enough on search queries to get significant traction. At its core it's listing all possible Android apps with some additional useful info like similar apps, comments from users and so on - so also the content is quite unique. Do you guys have any idea how to push the rank up - all suggestions are welcome!

Cheers,
Ivan
Tetris Reimagined For A TouchScreen (drag pieces with your fingers)
I've always been a huge fan of Tetris and for a while now I've thought the core concept would work great on a touch screen where you could literally grab the pieces and position them appropriately.

I looked around but there weren't any attempts to make a game where you could grab a block and fit it in to the puzzle. There have been versions where you can use the touch-screen like an old GameBoy, with the controls just areas on the screen. There's even a version by EA where you click an area where it is supposed to go: http://www.ea.com/tetris-iphone/images/877085a5002f3310VgnVC... (at least I think that's how it works). But again, I couldn't find anything where you could actually grab a piece with your finger and position it in the puzzle.

The big problem, though, is that the whole increasing speed aspect of the game gets screwed up as soon as you start grabbing pieces with your finger (the piece stops falling so the speed that it is falling at matters very little).

So I decided to embrace this constraint and create a falling blocks game that doesn't require the block to fall faster in order to be challenging.

Some of the changes I made:

1) You can grab and move any piece at any time (except if they are partially off the screen).
2) You can place pieces under other pieces.
3) You can pause the game and completely reorder all of the pieces.
4) You have to fill in the bottom row completely in order to build your structure in to the sky.
5) There are a number of challenging pieces that you have to incorporate in to your structure.

With the changes, the game becomes more about the puzzle-like aspect of organizing the pieces as they are presented and less about the speed at which they are presented.

I'm guessing some Tetris fans will find some of these changes annoying or even offensive. It's just one person's attempt to make the classic "falling blocks" game work on a touch screen. I'm sure there are other ways you could approach it.

The game is available on IOS and Android for a buck. There's also a brief video at the link that shows that game in action. Sorry about charging for it, but I'm hoping to recoup some of the expenses that went in to making it and ideally help to fund my next puzzle game.

If you do end up trying it out I'd love to hear feedback if people have it. It takes a little practice to get good at grabbing and rotating pieces. I recommend making a "peace sign" with your fingers and using your index finger to grab and move pieces while swiping with your middle finder to rotate. Once you get that down, though, it's a lot of fun. Also it's a little easier on a larger screen, so if you have an iPad you may want to try it out on that to start.
I wish people who do "Show HN" projects like this would consider implementing throwaway accounts. More than anything, what I appreciate about some of these projects is their low-friction-low-commitment approach to user experience.
The most likely shape of interstellar war is lasergrams that say "We hate you" (but here is some harvestable energy...).

The next most likely is probably relativistic projectiles, which are dangerous in proportion to the energy required to send them (i.e., they aren't that likely a threat).

Direct invasions of civilizations that can shape the matter of an entire solar system seem pretty much destined to failure (I guess you could come in on a ship built from an entire solar system, but I wonder if you are war mongering at that point).
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Donnie Darko opened the month after 9/11, and many theaters refused to show it due to its depiction of a plane crashing. Didn't go positive in the box office likely as a result.

Absolutely excellent cult film for anyone interested.
I changed the slides by clicking outside of the slides, on the left and right.
App.net Drops Its Price From $50 to $36/Year w $5/Month Plan
Is that why so few other laptops have them? Well, I'm looking forward to it.
Perhpas not in the tech industry. Bill Gates is pretty legendary in his own rights. I remember when growing up, he was the man you wanted to be. Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Phill Knight, Michael Bloomberg, and I'm sure plenty of other CEOs have a pretty good "personality cult" Perhaps not as cultish as Steve Jobs, but still very legendary and an important face to their company and industry nonetheless.
While some Linux distributions have come a long way, I still don't think this will happen any time soon. The ease of use is still far behind OS X and Windows in my opinion.

Granted, I've only used Ubuntu (12.04 LTS mostly), but that's one of the most user-friendly distributions I think.
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I'd forgotten about that somehow. Looks like we have our smoking gun! Hard to claim its surreptitious though.
Ubuntu Adds ‘Amazon Results’ Off Switch, Fixes NSFW Issues
Blatant shaming and guilt trips aren't going to inspire donations from me. If you're treating your users like adversaries or tools you don't get to assume the moral high ground.

Nice try, though. Might work on other people.
Facebook Hits 1 Billionth User - Launches This Video
$100/year for API access is a bit steep though.
Passbook can't read data from touching things. It could also never transmit a Geo intent to my car GPS using a cheap IC on both sides.

Payment and loyalty cards aren't the whole story, but Japan and others had no problem doing this ten years ago.
If you reset safari you get the video. Interesting
Not sure what you mean - are you saying that you wish it were easier to create an account to try it out?
Its a interesting site :) However I couldnt figure out how to connect one output to two inputs.
A tweetable (140 character) single line of Python:

print '\n'.join((lambda x:(''.join(x) if x else str(i)))([w+'zz' for (n,w) in ((3,'Fi'),(5,'Bu'),(7,'Ba')) if i%n==0]) for i in range(1,100))
My understanding is that research into this kind of thing has been in the works before Facebook even existed. I can't remember where I read this, but I think it was an article on Wired a year or two ago about the government possessing this kind of technology.

Isn't there a company that has something similar that analyses CTV footage and can detect and react to violent behavior? And another company built technology that can detect gunshots so that police can be deployed to an area quickly.

The future is right under our noses.
Intel has supported Linux for a long time. There's an intel compiler for Linux but not for osx...
Absolutely, but not Ballmer! Sorry, was that mean?
There's patents that made them so rare? Damn it! I love those things, they just work so well, with so little finger movement.
SEO, SEM, & Analytics Insights according to their web-page.

This is a decent-looking demo for helping snag possible clients, clients like shiny.
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But then why do you feel the need to post that? Do you often randomly walk up to groups of people and tell them you don't care about what they are discussing?
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A well-known example of a zip quine:
http://steike.com/code/useless/zip-file-quine/

Compression quines and bombs are a great way to screw up automated systems. Possessing or transmitting them can easily cause a denial of service.

From Wikipedia: A quine is a computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
"Now, it is hard to do this efficiently and it's all very interesting, but are we going to reduce AI to finding a conveniently-tuned input -> output function? This is much closer to simple regression than a thinking brain."

you're certain your brain processes data through "conveniently tuned functions"? my remote knowledge of the topic has lead me to believe the opposite. how inaccurate are our models of neural network behavior? and in what ways?
It's only $50 for API access...? screenshot: http://bluetide.pro/2pxK

...and FYI, I still that even that is pricey.
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As someone who just wants to get as much as possible out of the box, Bootstrap is the one that seems to have the momentum, which leads to more 'extras' and goodies, and more people making sure it works.
For me IE is and has pretty much always been much, much faster than firefox. Like it or not, almost all websites will work with it. It's not as extensible as the alternatives, but if you use multiple computers or just don't care about extensions it can make a very good browser. It's time to stop the childish hate.
With all due respect, outside HN he is nowhere near level of Steve Jobs "fame".
I'm not a fan of IE, but I didn't expect it to be targeted on TC like this.
Every action you do on your PayPal account is logged, that must account for something.
> that have been around for the last many years

Unsupervised deep learning is the heart of what they are doing, and this is a relatively new method (first I saw it was at NIPS in Dec 2006). The 1980s were dominated by two layer supervised feedforward neural networks, which are quite different.
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Bach's cello suites were what originally inspired me to start studying music. And the first recording of them I ever heard was Yo-Yo Ma's original recording (he has at least one newer recording now).
To me, dependability and reliability are the absolute lowest bar of criteria. Meaning -- of course I expect you to actually do some work if I pay you. The fact that you seem to have trouble getting that and you also want rates to be low are correlated. You are getting non-serious, probably side-job or unskilled freelancers.

If you can't afford freelancers who just minimally meet the lowest bar, raise your prices.

Also, you picked the absolute worst place for an ad like this.
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Passbook and NFC exist on different layers. The exciting prospect that Passbook holds is as a wrapper -- a mobile wallet -- that can ultimately include things that work via NFC, when at some point the API is extended to do so.
I think Google might be in the better position. Not only can they see what people search for, they have access to more emails than anyone else. Anyone who gets an email from facebook that includes the text of a facebook post or message could be read by Google.
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What have you got against musicians?
For github, I would add advertising as a source of revenue. From looking at the september data, github jobs seems to add around $1.2m per year to the bottom line.
Walt Disney, too.
I'd like you to back that assertion. Why couldn't your types mirror your interface?
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I have, and I can tell you that the speed at which they are able to search for transactions is disturbing. Regardless of if it's related to indexes or another cause, it's still a huge issue for people who have to use PayPal. That appears to be the point the parent comment was trying to make.

Your comment had the potential to be constructive and educational, but instead you took a condescending approach. That's unfortunate.
I would not think so. My impression is many artists (musicians too) feel inspired by a higher spirit, so to speak. Personally, I am not a believer, but I understand how it can feel when one is.
The talks are being recorded. They should be online later. Great talk from Armin!
No. By throwaway account I mean having a button that says "Generate a throwaway account for me", which then causes the back-end to generate a random hex string. The user then clicks on http://omgsmackdown.com/58d7875171f9b6a4c22d6b46e4da9b26 and may optionally associate a nickname with that identity, but from that point on, the user is logged in as far as the app is concerned.
Here you go - http://fosslien.com/startup/
I think they would have released it. It seems they had little choice. It was either release it or renegotiate their contract with Google since it is almost up.
This cracked me up, in general, but I didn't get the reference to him using IE on Mac or why he was using IE on a Mac? It kind of ruins the joke since IE9 isn't even on Mac? ...am I missing something?
Also see: http://falstad.com/circuit/ (Java applet)
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Or, "Shit by any other name would smell as bad" :-)
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Maybe not at the transport or protocol level, but it wouldn't be too hard to DoS an application server that handles compressed data, such as images.

Make a billion-pixel PNG image that compresses very well, upload several copies simultaneously to a LAMP server running on an average Linode, and watch it run out of memory while trying to create thumbnails with GD.
"It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities...[with humanity]... that yields us the result that makes our heart sing"
You can use a function with different types in a way the original programmer didn't think about. Obviously this has good and bad aspects.

My "whoa" moment with python typing came when I implemented euclid's algorithm (for the gcd of two numbers). Shortly later, I wrote a polynomial class, and then I was able to use my original function on polynomials without changing a single character

In some statically typed languages that would be possible if I'd thought to write my original function generically. But at the time I hadn't even thought about calling it with anything other than integers.
The concept that I got from the main article was that they tailored their application for "long-lived connection" to avoid multiple resource calls to make their web server more responsive. They also mention things like using "aggressive cacheing", "storing templates locally", "using timestamps to stream only required resources", "rearchitecture and rewrite."

Never once did I ever feel this article was advising that node.js was superior to RoR - they only every justified, at a high level, a way better approach (in terms of server load) to an "MVC" like architecture by leveraging client side frameworks and technique to lessen server load.

The author of this article also makes it clear at the end by stating that comparing the solutions is apples to oranges, but so did the original article...so I don't get the need for "clarification".

EDIT: I retract my "way better" statement - I mean "way better" in the sense of server load.
I would say, if you're looking for the kitchen sink, don't look at Foundation. It's explicitly not meant to be that kind of solution.

There are many different [responsive] frameworks and most seem to vary in what they're doing, how they're doing it and to what extent they're providing you a system.
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God, I'm so envious reading all these comments -- patio11 struck a gold mine of the golden mean!

You know you've priced okay when (1) people bitch it's too high and (2) people bitch it's too low.

You know you've MVP'ed when (1) people bitch it's too ugly (walls of text!) and (2) people say it's not.

You also know you've MVP'ed when (1) people bitch the video's terrible (WTF? he didn't comb his hair!) and (2) others don't give a flip.

Now back to the price: it's not like big pharma has some kind of insta-power pill that chomps down all that consumer surplus. For a one-man show he did great.
He should be, again with all due respect to Steve.
the point is that ie9 is just as good/bad as a IE 5.5 on mac.
The point I was trying to make was that of all possible transaction searches you can make, one made on the transaction id should be the easiest one to make fast.
>I strongly vote out against companies discriminating against 'small' and 'big' named colleges. Least there is another interested hard working mostly self-taught engineer as me in any of them.

Maybe they can't go to each and every college in the country? Or maybe it's just inertia on their part.
What has Internet Explorer on Mac, which was discontinued in 2003, to do with Internet Explorer 9? Or for that matter, the Office paper clip? Or a site that won't load?

It makes no sense to me. I am certain that IE9 has many flaws when compared to it's competitors, but this video doesn't show any of them.
By your argument, all control groups for testing treatments for anything debilitating is unethical. The answer to that is that medical ethics generally work on a basis of least harm, so if you have informed volunteers who might have negative effects from a given trial, this is deemed to be balanced out by the general benefit that rigorous drug trials can bring to the wider population.

As far as the issue with some anti-depressives and suicide, the main issue was that drug trials showing this had in some cases been systematically downplayed and in some cases suppressed outright by the companies seeking to profit from these drugs. So the problem there was not with the procedure of medical trials, but rather with the corruption of the procedure of medical trials, for profit.
I am correlating it to Facebook specially because of "What's on your mind?" question that they pose. Psychics are about this only right?
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This is true in the absence of testing. There are tools (pylint, etc.) that will catch many type-related errors.
In case you didn't know, I was talking about the pointing stick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
I interpreted the original article that their new node.js approach was wildly different than a server-based MVC framework.

Sure, they ended up with 20x greater speed, but never did they say that it was because node.js. They even provide a high-level detailed description of all the things they did with their new approach to achieve this performance.
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Let’s break down the most frequent contract types that a freelance designer will encounter sooner or later in his/her professional life, and let’s try to take the mystery and fear out of them.
I guess that makes sense, but it seems like they put to much emphasis on that (somewhat bad) joke/reference... Haha
Another one: http://logic.ly/demo/
What you do in your job? What is kick ass for you?

We can do a lot of things to kick ass. For kicking ass on the job, the first one for me is know what are you doing and why.

The second is participating. Know what is going on, what people is doing, make suggestions. Participate.

But, for kicking ass coding, anything can replace the experience. So, read, write, read, write.
How is this Hacker News material?
I'm disappointed that http://www.suck.com hasn't been updated recently... I miss the heady days when it was the most interesting daily updated site on the information superhighway!
You should definitely see drh present it in person. He's giving a talk about it in universities around the world, seen it a couple years back, in Poland. It's incredible what effort goes into reliability of what seems such a small thing.

Btw, the very same day he persuaded me to move to Fossil.

Edit: just to be clear, you should see it for all the good ideas he's explaining. Not for some marketing of a piece o of software.
Zurb has one thing going for it that really makes a big difference, SASS. From the minute I saw SASS, I became a convert. Also, it's much less all encompassing.
Please do not even joke about this.
I don't know why you would be bitter. I said you sound bitter. You began your parent comment with what basically amounts to an ad hominem attack against the people of the area by implying that they are hostile to the open exchange of ideas and insulting their collective intelligence. Your initial comment seems as if you had fallen in to the trap of conflating different with wrong.

However, I do agree that working in Chattanooga (and the south in general) will be a bit of culture shock for those used to other, more cosmopolitan, areas of the country. I try not to fall into the trap of conflating different with wrong.

And having worked in Germany for several years (many years ago) I have warned people of possible cultural mismatch issues.
You should check out Mavia (mavizon.com). I have worked with these guys as a contractor in the past, and they've got a really cool product for cars. The first version is coming out in the next few months, and doesn't have "car control" yet. It has all kinds of neat location and OBDII diagnostics features right now. Car control (unlock doors, start the car, etc.) is the next big feature.
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I really need to quit reading HN comments. This entire thread is enraging. Both sides. Especially yours.